And with this, that was meant to be a Parthian shot, but that only provoked a nervous desire to laugh on the part of the girls, he gathered up the reins and drove off.
They saw him go with immense relief, for there was no other man in sight, and his impudence had alarmed as well as offended them.
“Well, of all the nerve!” ejaculated Belle.
“You certainly can freeze when you want to, Cora,” laughed Bess.
“How lucky it was that you thought of Jack,” said Belle. “Did you see the frightened look that came into his eyes?”
“That sort of man always is a coward,” replied Cora. “Perhaps he won’t be so free and easy when he meets girls alone again. But let’s get busy now and hustle these things back into the car.”
They soon had the thermos bottle and the depleted lunch basket tucked snugly away. The twins settled down in the rear seat, Cora threw in the clutch, and the car started.
They had gone perhaps a mile, when they descried a car coming at a rapid rate from the opposite direction.
“That man seems to be trying to break the speed limit,” remarked Cora, as she drove her own car close to the right-hand side of the road so as to give plenty of room.
“Like Jehu, the son of Nimshi, he driveth furiously,” observed Belle.